What happens when an oil rig drills into an underwater salt mine.

[Seth1968]

The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres (260,000 m2) of the surrounding terrain. So much water drained into those caverns that the flow of the Delcambre Canal that usually empties the lake into Vermilion Bay was reversed, making the canal a temporary inlet. This backflow created, for a few days, the tallest waterfall ever in the state of Louisiana, at 164 feet (50 m), as the lake refilled with salt water from the Delcambre Canal and Vermilion Bay. The water downflowing into the mine caverns displaced air which erupted as compressed air and then later as 400-foot (120 m) geysers up through the mineshafts.

That's from Wikipedia, and here's the 9 min video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_feW...iG5N_H&index=7

[16hypen3sp]

Wow. Interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[Darkane]

Yeah thanks for that. Pretty crazy.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

That was actually really interesting. Thanks for posting.

[BokCh0y]

That was really cool to watch, thanks for posting.

[Maxx Mazda]

Wow. What a crazy story.

[Seth1968]

There's a 162 more where that came from. Each is from about 7 to 10 minutes, and shows various types of engineering disasters.

This link will start the sequential playing of each:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVB...hpXVDnPHiG5N_H

[msommers]

Man, that is nuts!

[vengie]

Watched this a couple years ago when I was going to SAIT, very interesting.